6 responses to “Futurama: Ironic or Coincidental?”

He won every major award for editorial cartooning, including the 1988 Pulitzer Price for Editorial Cartooning for cartoons about the PTL scandal involving TV Evangelists Jim and Tammy Faye Baker. Over the years Marlette became an expert in drawing the heavily mascaraed Tammy Faye.

Ironically, Tammy Faye Baker Messner died July 20, 2007 only a week after Doug Marlette.

All this talk of “ironically” got me thinking of another phrase that I feel is used incorrectly when it is used (at least on occasion): “in a twist of fate.” Any thoughts on whether or not this phrase is used acceptably by most people? I feel as if it runs into the same problem people experience with “ironically.”

I was drawn to the site by your discussion of “ironic” vs “coincidental”. Thank you for opening these usage abuses to public scrutiny.

Has any of you noticed the erosion of prepositions among Generation Y? It seems like there is only one preposition left, and it’s “on”. Where “about”, “between”, or “among” would be clear, my students are using “on” – to the detriment of some phrasal verbs and to understanding in general.